# Non admin has access to closed category

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/non-admin-has-access-to-closed-category/36851>\
**Category:** Feature\
**Created:** [December 17, 2015, 6:09pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/non-admin-has-access-to-closed-category/36851 "2015-12-17T18:09:09Z")\
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**Author:** ![AlexBCodecademy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b3f665/32.png) [@AlexBCodecademy](https://meta.discourse.org/u/AlexBCodecademy)\
**Post date:** [December 17, 2015, 6:14pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/non-admin-has-access-to-closed-category/36851/4 "2015-12-17T18:14:20Z")

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Ok – so found the problem.

Maybe this is a bug? That post was under a child category in a private parent category. But when I created the child category within the private parent category, it did not keep the permissions.

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